The problem you are experiencing is a fundamental issue on how classloaders hierarchy works when using servlet container. documented here
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html Filip -----Original Message----- From: shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:08 PM To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: RE: class loading issue/bug 4.1.17 On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 09:42, Filip Hanik wrote: > 1. you could also move the mysql.jar into your WEB-INF/lib and you should resove the >same problem too. > >From Tomcat docs on DBCP These jar files along with your the jar file for your JDBC driver should be installed in $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib. NOTE: Do not install these jarfiles in your /WEB-INF/lib, or $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext, or anywhere else. You will experience problems if you install them anyplace other than $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib. > 2. You could just get the bytes (instead of getObject) store/retrieve bytes and do >the marshalling in your servlet code. > > Fine but if this is a limitation of Tomcat, shouldn't it be documented? Maybe even in the section on DBCP...one side of effect of this requirement is that... (As you may know as is sometimes the case in OpenSource, Junior developers have a tough time getting Sr ones to do things differently without sufficient justification...) I do greatly appreciate the response and apologize for being fiesty this morning. This in no way should be interpreted as any form of complaint. Shawn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
